#201 Game Show Archive w/ Bob Boden & Chris Bensch
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Game shows have been featured in network lineups from the very beginning of television and, like all forms of entertainment, they tell us a lot about the culture in which they exist. Fortunately for us, The Strong Museum of Play recently announced the establishment of The National Archives of Game Show History to preserve this history and make it available to the public. In this episode Ben speaks with archive co-founder and veteran game show producer/executive Bob Boden (The Price is Right, $25,000 Pyramid, Funny You Should Ask!) and Strong Museum Vice President of Acquisitions, Chris Bensch, to learn more about their work to preserve this history and how an archive focused on game shows can be valuable for those looking to understand the past.
For more about The Strong Museum of Play, visit their website: MuseumOfPlay.org.
Check out Bob Boden's current show, Funny You Should Ask! at FunnyYouShouldAsk.tv.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is in the loop, the Legion of Osiris Podcasts. |
| 0:03.9 | Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with live experiences and podcasts |
| 0:08.9 | about artists and topics you love. |
| 0:11.6 | Get in the loop at Osirispod.com. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is The Road to Now. |
| 0:24.0 | This week's episode combines two of my favorite things in the world. |
| 0:28.3 | It's about archiving and the history of game shows. |
| 0:32.2 | You guys know I love history. |
| 0:33.6 | Obviously, I do this podcast, but game shows fascinate me. |
| 0:37.2 | And actually, like, one of me and |
| 0:38.9 | Gary Fletcher, our associate producers, one of the things we bond over has been, number one, |
| 0:43.4 | we hosted a comedy game show together for a long time, but now the price is right. We both love it. |
| 0:48.1 | It's an amazing show. And so I decided to be fun to try to do an episode on this. |
| 0:52.8 | Just so happens that the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, |
| 0:57.0 | a few weeks before I started looking to book this show, |
| 1:00.4 | they had released a press release about this new archive. |
| 1:04.1 | It's the Game Show History Archive that they are building. |
| 1:07.5 | So I got in touch with them, and our guests today are outstanding. |
| 1:12.4 | We have Bob Bowden, |
| 1:19.1 | who is a veteran, veteran game show producer. He has lived the life. His mentor was Dick Clark. |
| 1:26.8 | He was the first student intern on The Price is Right. This guy was on set helping Alex Trebek prep when they were rebooting Jeopardy, |
| 1:29.1 | which a lot of people don't remember, went off the air for a while and then came back on with Alex Trebek. |
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